Yeah you should stop learning. In the middle of your career, the return on investment is going to be weak.
I wouldn't have responded to this if it hadn't been modded "insightful." At the risk of being a biter, a nerd's return on investment isn't monetary. The acquired knowledge itself is the return. There's no such thing as too much knowledge. I've attended classes off and on for forty years, and will continue to do so when I retire in a couple of years. A few of those classes my employer sent me to did have a bit of financial reward, but mostly it was just to learn something new.
Look at Shaquile O'Niel. He was already a basketball superstar who owned a fortune, yet he went ahead and obtained a PhD. What financial reward will Dr. O'Neil get? None. But the rewards are probably far better than any financial reward to him.
Why I don't understand is why anyone would need to contract the word "punked", since the contractione sounds exactly like the word that's contracted, and contains as many characters; they merely replaced the e with an apostrophe.
Four litres is just over a gallon. I'm pretty sure I drink a lot more than four liters per day. Hell, I get a litre of water in the form of coffee every morning, while drinking water along with it. I probably drink closer to eight litres a day... and that doesn't count beer (also mostly water).
As to "you will probably die" there's no "probably" about it. Everybody dies, the question is when and from what.
Yes, I have an old HP at home that's running kubuntu 11.1 (the computer only has 750 megs of RAM so Flash refuses to run on the new version). An older version still, like Mandriva 2005, will run on a 400 mz Celeron with 256k of memory.
Someone please mod parent up! I'm submitting an ask/. in a few days, I need a good RAT because I'm adding a headless box to my home network. Google returns lots of RATs, but I'd like to know what other slashdotters who've used them, preferably more than one, themselves and can give some recomendations. And I'm sure I'll get a lot of useless "just use google" comments like the poor submitter did.
It barely worked in Korea, failed miserably in Vietnam and hasn't even got started yet in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Since the Korean war was never officially ended (there's only a cease fire), that's hardly a win. But you are reading your history wrong about Vietnam. In that conflict, we won the battles but lost the war. It was a political defeat, not a military one. As to Iraq and Afghanistan, you're kidding, right? How long did the first Iraqui war last? The second Iraqui war (as well as the Afghan war) would have been over much faster had the US's Commander In Chief not been utterly incompetent at everything he ever did.
I guess my Motorola feature phone is a smartphone, then, even though it was only $100 without a contract. It does email and web pages, you can install apps. Actually it's a bit like a blackberry with its qwerty keyboard. But it runs neither HTC, Android, nor iOS but instad runs some crappy Motorola OS.
BTW, Google, keep the Motorola engineers, they make fantastic radios, but lay their programmers off. Those guys suck.
I often wonder how some engineers ever graduate college. Some people never learn! The first car radios in the digital age replaced the knobs with buttons. Knobs came back because dammit, when you're driving you need tactile feedback, not visual feedback, from controls. So now the idiots are getting rid of knobs again!
And what moron decided to put wiper controls and especially headlight controls on the turn signal??? I've driven cars with the headlight controls there, my car isn't as bad, it just has the wiper control there, but often when I hit the turn signal the wipers will come on. Put it where I can change something with both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road, like the radio and cruise on my car. I wish the climate controls were on the steering as well.
Are they recruiting automotive engineers from the searning disabled? Or are the idiots at the top who run things ramming these bad ideas down engineers' and designers' throats?
No, this is a tax and thus is a net drain on society.
First, you believe all taxes are drains on society? You can't have government without revenue, and anarchy always leads to monarchy. Some things, like roads and bridges, are best done by governments and paid for by taxes. But this isn't a tax; a tax goes straight to government. This is no more a tax than my city mandating that I hire a private waste disposal company to take my garbage.
Morality can't be legislated, even if recycling is a good thing. This is nannying the general populous in a very large way
So, you're against murder, rape, and theft laws? Either I'm completely misunderstanding you, or you're insane. This isn't nannying any more than laws against dumping your oil in the river are. Marijuana laws, prostitution laws, sodomy laws -- victimless crimes -- are nannying. Environmental laws, like laws against other assaults, protect you from me.
When these companies can no longer compete with the rest of the world, they'll either move out of Europe or seek special favors from the EU politicians to help keep them afloat.
So, you'ld like London or Brussels to look like Mexico City? This is simply another environmental law. I wish they'd impliment it here in the US, I see it as a good law. As it is here, the onus is on the consumer to recycle the equipment. Your EU law puts the onus on the manufacturer (or possibly seller?). I have junk in my garage I'd love to throw away, but I'd have to cart it ten miles to the nort part of town.
I guess "ass" is OK because "ass" is a synonym for "donkey", like "bitch" is OK because a bitch is a female dog. I like how they cut all the funny parts of a movie because there's "dirty words" but show all the blood and violence. They won't have the punk in Terminator" tell Arnold "fuck you, asshole" but they show Arnold yanking the guy's heart out of his chest.
You have yet to use any large ones. My point was that you can't honestly use a flawed study to prove a point (or to prove anything at all). This study was used to illustrate the truth of "men are all evil" when it proves not only nothing of the sort, but nothing at all.
Thanks for the link to the scan, I didn't know any of his works were online. "Nightfall" is one of the two dozen books in my Asimov collection. I wish I had copies of all 500+ of them!
best summed up by "my opponent will destroy this country," even though a rational, objective thinker would realize that neither major candidate will likely do so.
When shrub took the oath, he'd been left a balanced budget, the Twin Towers bombers were in jail, we were at peace, and enjoying a booming economy.
When he left office we were in the worst recession since the Great Depression, had been attacked with the attackers not brought to justice, were in two wars. He was History's only President that left office with America having fewer jobs than when he was sworn it.
I'd say he did pretty much what you say is so unlikely.
The internet doesn't have enything to do with it. If you had a big enough radio transciever, all the codes and passwords and proticols and probably a few other things, you could hack into it.
Quite often that's a legitimate typo. The O is right next to the P on a qwerty keyboard. About the only time I ever see it (or write it) is when trying to be funny.
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Painted the right color you would never see it. With stealth tech radar would have a hard time seeing it.
If he needs a VLT she's probably REALLY fat.
Yeah you should stop learning. In the middle of your career, the return on investment is going to be weak.
I wouldn't have responded to this if it hadn't been modded "insightful." At the risk of being a biter, a nerd's return on investment isn't monetary. The acquired knowledge itself is the return. There's no such thing as too much knowledge. I've attended classes off and on for forty years, and will continue to do so when I retire in a couple of years. A few of those classes my employer sent me to did have a bit of financial reward, but mostly it was just to learn something new.
Look at Shaquile O'Niel. He was already a basketball superstar who owned a fortune, yet he went ahead and obtained a PhD. What financial reward will Dr. O'Neil get? None. But the rewards are probably far better than any financial reward to him.
The Nexus 7 is just barely small enough to fit in the pocket of a pair of men's pants.
Only if you're six foot nine and weigh 400 pounds.
you don't need to carry a backpack or manpurse or whatever in order to have a place to put away the device.
My notebook is about the size of a tablet or a hardcover book. I just carry it in my hand.
Why I don't understand is why anyone would need to contract the word "punked", since the contractione sounds exactly like the word that's contracted, and contains as many characters; they merely replaced the e with an apostrophe.
Seems silly to me.
Four litres is just over a gallon. I'm pretty sure I drink a lot more than four liters per day. Hell, I get a litre of water in the form of coffee every morning, while drinking water along with it. I probably drink closer to eight litres a day... and that doesn't count beer (also mostly water).
As to "you will probably die" there's no "probably" about it. Everybody dies, the question is when and from what.
But when Vietnam did that, USA just keep quite, very very quite
Quite what? Don't keep us in suspense, man!
Wikipedia is your friend.
Can Linux run with a gui on a 10 year old PC?
Yes, I have an old HP at home that's running kubuntu 11.1 (the computer only has 750 megs of RAM so Flash refuses to run on the new version). An older version still, like Mandriva 2005, will run on a 400 mz Celeron with 256k of memory.
Someone please mod parent up! I'm submitting an ask /. in a few days, I need a good RAT because I'm adding a headless box to my home network. Google returns lots of RATs, but I'd like to know what other slashdotters who've used them, preferably more than one, themselves and can give some recomendations. And I'm sure I'll get a lot of useless "just use google" comments like the poor submitter did.
It barely worked in Korea, failed miserably in Vietnam and hasn't even got started yet in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Since the Korean war was never officially ended (there's only a cease fire), that's hardly a win. But you are reading your history wrong about Vietnam. In that conflict, we won the battles but lost the war. It was a political defeat, not a military one. As to Iraq and Afghanistan, you're kidding, right? How long did the first Iraqui war last? The second Iraqui war (as well as the Afghan war) would have been over much faster had the US's Commander In Chief not been utterly incompetent at everything he ever did.
Most people who want "free as in beer" also want "free as in speech".
I guess my Motorola feature phone is a smartphone, then, even though it was only $100 without a contract. It does email and web pages, you can install apps. Actually it's a bit like a blackberry with its qwerty keyboard. But it runs neither HTC, Android, nor iOS but instad runs some crappy Motorola OS.
BTW, Google, keep the Motorola engineers, they make fantastic radios, but lay their programmers off. Those guys suck.
I often wonder how some engineers ever graduate college. Some people never learn! The first car radios in the digital age replaced the knobs with buttons. Knobs came back because dammit, when you're driving you need tactile feedback, not visual feedback, from controls. So now the idiots are getting rid of knobs again!
And what moron decided to put wiper controls and especially headlight controls on the turn signal??? I've driven cars with the headlight controls there, my car isn't as bad, it just has the wiper control there, but often when I hit the turn signal the wipers will come on. Put it where I can change something with both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road, like the radio and cruise on my car. I wish the climate controls were on the steering as well.
Are they recruiting automotive engineers from the searning disabled? Or are the idiots at the top who run things ramming these bad ideas down engineers' and designers' throats?
No, this is a tax and thus is a net drain on society.
First, you believe all taxes are drains on society? You can't have government without revenue, and anarchy always leads to monarchy. Some things, like roads and bridges, are best done by governments and paid for by taxes. But this isn't a tax; a tax goes straight to government. This is no more a tax than my city mandating that I hire a private waste disposal company to take my garbage.
Morality can't be legislated, even if recycling is a good thing. This is nannying the general populous in a very large way
So, you're against murder, rape, and theft laws? Either I'm completely misunderstanding you, or you're insane. This isn't nannying any more than laws against dumping your oil in the river are. Marijuana laws, prostitution laws, sodomy laws -- victimless crimes -- are nannying. Environmental laws, like laws against other assaults, protect you from me.
When these companies can no longer compete with the rest of the world, they'll either move out of Europe or seek special favors from the EU politicians to help keep them afloat.
So, you'ld like London or Brussels to look like Mexico City? This is simply another environmental law. I wish they'd impliment it here in the US, I see it as a good law. As it is here, the onus is on the consumer to recycle the equipment. Your EU law puts the onus on the manufacturer (or possibly seller?). I have junk in my garage I'd love to throw away, but I'd have to cart it ten miles to the nort part of town.
I guess I'll hove to google to see what the difference between an antenna and a rectenna is, and why they gave rectennas such a goofy name.
maybe it wouldn't trouble me so much if it weren't Sony making the only options.
If Sony was the only company making cell phones I'd go back to a landline.
I guess "ass" is OK because "ass" is a synonym for "donkey", like "bitch" is OK because a bitch is a female dog. I like how they cut all the funny parts of a movie because there's "dirty words" but show all the blood and violence. They won't have the punk in Terminator" tell Arnold "fuck you, asshole" but they show Arnold yanking the guy's heart out of his chest.
It's insane.
I'll say it again and will use small words
You have yet to use any large ones. My point was that you can't honestly use a flawed study to prove a point (or to prove anything at all). This study was used to illustrate the truth of "men are all evil" when it proves not only nothing of the sort, but nothing at all.
Thanks for the link to the scan, I didn't know any of his works were online. "Nightfall" is one of the two dozen books in my Asimov collection. I wish I had copies of all 500+ of them!
I'm a bit above median for my state and median for the US and mine went up.
best summed up by "my opponent will destroy this country," even though a rational, objective thinker would realize that neither major candidate will likely do so.
When shrub took the oath, he'd been left a balanced budget, the Twin Towers bombers were in jail, we were at peace, and enjoying a booming economy.
When he left office we were in the worst recession since the Great Depression, had been attacked with the attackers not brought to justice, were in two wars. He was History's only President that left office with America having fewer jobs than when he was sworn it.
I'd say he did pretty much what you say is so unlikely.
Hell, I can't even vote (yet)
That's why we don't let kids vote.
The internet doesn't have enything to do with it. If you had a big enough radio transciever, all the codes and passwords and proticols and probably a few other things, you could hack into it.
It's not likely to happen, I agree.
Quite often that's a legitimate typo. The O is right next to the P on a qwerty keyboard. About the only time I ever see it (or write it) is when trying to be funny.
I couldn't. Someone else might be able to though...